topos Magazine

16 March 2021

topos 114 | fringes. Current considerations of fringes often depend on exploring and analysing relationships – the relationship between city and countryside, centre and periphery, different quality spaces inside and outside the city as well as transitions between built space and natural space. In topos 114 that is on fringes we explore that which lies at the edges, that which is located in the transition between two systems; that which sets a mark, but which also merges fluidly or even in fragile ways from one element into the other while still being able to accomodate one or more centres within it. We define fringes as in-between spaces, transitional spaces, and sometimes non-places; contradictory, sometimes undefined, fragmented. Above all, we define fringes as spaces of possibility and experimentation.